Saturday, March 12, 2011

Boardwalk Bowl: Site of some great Owl wins

An actual photo from the 1984 Temple football win in A.C.

Today and tomorrow, some 10,550 fans are going to be packed into Boardwalk Hall, otherwise known as the Atlantic City Convention Center, to watch (hopefully) a couple of great Owl wins.There's no secret to Temple's success there.Mix in about 9,000 rabid Temple fans with some great coaching and you have three straight A-10 basketball titles.Hopefully, that will be a fourth by Sunday.Yet Temple football once held the spotlight there, too.I was last there in the Orwellian Year of 1984 to watch Temple play an out-of-this-world football game.That year, the Owls posted a great football win before a big and enthusiastic Temple following. It beat MAC champion Toledo (8-1-1 at the time) like a drum, 35-6.Toledo went off to the California Bowl after that and Temple went home with a 6-5 record against the 10th toughest schedule in the country.Atlantic City: Temple's home away from home.